Move the distribution database

  • Does anyone know how to move the distribution database?

  • David, I assume you'd move it like you'd move any of the system dbs. Is this moving to a new location on the same server? Or a new server?

    MS Ref: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;224071

  • It is moving it on the same server.

    I'm asking more for curiosity sake than anything. 

    As standard practice I use the articles you wrote on moving databases to put the system databases into their own folder.  This is mainly because I like to keep system stuff well away from user stuff.

    I notice that the initial install data directory has the Distribution database files, but there doesn't seem to be a registry setting or database record that identifies where those files are held, until you configure your server for replication, by which time it is too late.

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